Imputing Income to Parents Receiving Public Assistance or on CalWORKS

This video discusses the court’s ability to impute income to a parent receiving cash aid (aka aided or on public assistance) or on CalWORKS (aka aided or on public assistance). This analysis applies regardless of if the parent having income imputed is the custodial parent/parent receiving support or the non-custodial parent/parent paying support.

Jessica Ryan Keeney is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She is the Department of Child Support Services (aka DCSS) attorney for Lassen County and Plumas County (two small, rural California counties). She has practiced family law since December of 2009, when she was sworn in as an attorney in California. Before that, she worked as a law student for a family law attorney starting at the end of her second year of law school until she graduated from law school (a four-year law school program). She was a City Attorney for a small rural city in California for just shy of 5 years.

This video is not legal advice. This video is for educational purposes only. Neither Jessica Ryan Keeney nor Lassen County Department of Child Support Services, nor Plumas County Department of Child Support Services, nor anyone else can guarantee or be responsible for the outcome of your case.

The following are links to items discussed in the video.

Family Code section 4052

County of Yolo v. Francis (1986) 179 Cal.App.3d 647

County of Yolo v. Garcia (1993) 20 Cal.App.4th 1771

In re Marriage of Hinman (1997) 55 Cal.App.4th 988 (aka Hinman 8)

Barron v. Superior Court (2009) 173 Cal.App.4th 293

Westside Community for Independent Living, Inc. v. Obledo (1983) 33 Cal.3d 348, 355

Mendoza v. Ramos (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 680

In re Marriage of Regnery (1989) 214 Cal.App.3d 1367, 1372-1373


Although the following links may not be mentioned in this video, they link to information that is often helpful in IV-D child support and family law matters.

Copies of California Judicial Council forms can be found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/formname.htm.

Date Time Calculator is available at https://www.timeanddate.com/date/date...

CSDA Attorney Sourcebook, AKA DCSS Sourcebook, AKA Child Support Bible can be purchased at: https://csdaca.org/product-category/p...

California Statutes Including the Family Code: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...

California Child Support Services: childsupport.ca.gov

Lassen County Department of Child Support Services: http://lassencounty.org/dept/departme...

For more resources visit Jessica Ryan Keeney’s web page at: https://jessicaryankeeneylaw.myfreesi...